J. Landman Gay wrote: "Better be careful what you put in your scripts:
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/code_outrage/>" as a veteran user of 'abusive' language I am afraid I laughed my socks off - surely 'bo****ks' are those things without which half the population of the world would feel a bit odd? and the "F' word refers to a reasonably popular pastime among the greater part of the human population (not to say anything about the rest of the animal kingdom). Words are really fairly random things and the meaning we ascribe to them, while being conventualised to an extent, changes over time (hence language change and dialectal divergence). Biblical fundamentalists would have it that the world is a static thing - yet the bible (among many other religious scriptures) contains words that meant rather different things when they were written down to how we now take them. This is, surely, a problem for the fundamentalists (of all faiths, sects and cults) and not for the rest of us who keep our quiet, personal faiths to ourselves and feel sufficiently secure in our belief-systems that we don't have to continually ram them down other people's throats. I am also sure that those Open Source coders who can't resist slipping the odd 'blast' and 'damn' into their code are not going to be particularly perturbed by organisations such as the American Family Association casting anathemas at them. Some of us can't be bothered by narrow minded bigots - and I often wonder what God thinks about them too. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ I have just read and signed the online petition: "Hinge & Bracket" hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/HandB/ I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider signing yourself. Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
